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Charles Dixon RI (1872-1934)

CHARLES EDWARD DIXON, RI (1872-1934)

Charles Dixon was born in Goring, Oxfordshire, on 8 December 1872. Considered one of the finest marine painters working at the turn of the century, his work included large scale watercolours, as well as oils, depicting complex scenes with many vessels. A keen yachtsman and friend of Sir Thomas Lipton, he recorded scenes of the America's Cup Races and his work combined accuracy with a sense of movement and technical freedom. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours (elected RI in 1872), at various dealers and in the provinces. Also a member of the London Sketch Club, he contributed to a number of periodicals, including the Graphic and the Sphere and illustrated C N Robinson's Britannia's Bulwarks (1901). He was a founder member of the Yacht Club at Itchenor, Sussex, where he lived.
He died at Itchenor on 12 September 1934.

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